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Matthew Leary
Data Scientist | Veteran | Tottenham Hotspur supporter
I enjoy working with data to find and deliver insights, solve business problems, and build tools that help people work more efficiently. I found my way into data science after 10+ years working in public policy and public relations.
Education
M.S., Decision Analytics | M.B.A.
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA
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- Distinguished Alumni Award for developing an alumni analytics meetup group
B.S., Political Science
Campbell University
Buies Creek, NC
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Professional Experience
Data Scientist
Markel Corporation
Richmond, VA
Present - 2018
- Data science developer on an agile sprint team managing applications that prioritize and monitor incoming business submissions at a Fortune 500 company
- Develops, maintains, and deploys machine learning models, primarily GLMs, decisions trees, and dabbling in unsupervised techniniques
- Conducts ad hoc analysis to diagnosis trends, analyze model performance, and make business recommendations based on data and statistical tests
- Experienced with the continuous deployment of machine learning models & applications to production environments with Azure DevOps
- Communicates technical matters, such as model selection and maintenance, to business owners and works to advance the analytics capabilities within the company
- Regularly uses R, Python, Git, SQL, Azure DevOps
- Sources data from databases, API calls, XMLs, JSON, PDFs, free text, etc.
- R advocate within the organization, exploring the development of internal R packages
Legislative and Military Liaison
Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles
Richmond, VA
2018 - 2014
- Advisor to the commissioner and senior executives of an 1,800-person organization, representing the commissioner at the state legislature and senior-level meeting
- Communicated agency policies to the General Assembly and Military installations
- Project manager for a study requested by the General Assembly, coordinating with external stakeholders to include state agencies and private businesses
- Explored automating manual reports and with R
Print Journalist | Public Affairs Manager
U.S. Army
Fort Bragg, NC
2014 - 2005
- Served in a variety of journalism and public relations roles with the 82nd Airborne Division, U.S. Military Academy and a Special Forces unit, including two deployments to Afghanistan
- Managed small, technical teams supporting high-risk training and deployments
- Provided consequence management planning for more than 20 Special Forces units training off military property, coordinating with law enforcement to inform the public
- Named Distinguished Honor Graduate and Distinguished Leader Graduate during two Army leadership training courses